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Aramek posted:Yes. The State is good. I, too, enjoy 90's absurdist sketch comedies.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I think the problem some would have with that is that, ideally, only the sex drive directed at children should be eliminated, not the sex drive entirely. It's kind of like cutting a thief's hands off - yeah it will work, but it's a bit of an extreme option that negatively impacts things aside from their desire to steal stuff/ diddle kids. A more targeted treatment would be preferable, but probably pretty unlikely to ever be developed. Honeypot, but I have a tremendously low sex drive and I prefer it that way. I've had to counsel a lot of friends through good relationships with bad sex and bad relationships with good sex. Lotta terrible decision-making borne from horniness. Having one less urge to dictate your life is a boon. And that's my unpopular opinion! 
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I get seeing superhero movies with a group of friends, but I can't imagine wanting to buy and watch them again later. The first run through is "shut off your brain and watch these SFX," so I'm not sure where the fun would be repeating that, especially by yourself. Which is probably why I failed to make it through Guardians twice. I can enjoy the gently caress out of something as stupid as Zoolander, though. Multiple times. 
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Nov 23, 2017 19:36
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sassassin posted:Have you tried turning your brain on? But if I do that, I won't like superhero movies at all!
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Nov 23, 2017 22:18
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I like pumpkin spice lattes and I need people to stop trying to make me feel like an rear end in a top hat about it.
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Nov 24, 2017 20:33
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The_Rob posted:Who are you justifying it to? Why do you need other people's approval to like what you like. They taste like poo poo but at the end of the day just order it and enjoy it. Jesus Christ, if the last page tells you anything it's that assholes love to make what I drink their business.
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Nov 25, 2017 01:41
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Solice Kirsk posted:You just haaaaaaaad to like something didn't you. I'VE LEARNED MY LESSON.
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Nov 25, 2017 02:29
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Tiggum posted:Black Mirror is a bad show. It clearly wants you to think about it and how deep and relevant it is, but if you actually do think about it then it's just shallow and full of holes. Black Mirror was pitched to me as The Twilight Zone and I've held a grudge against it ever since. I don't even really mean to. If I'd been told it was Tales From the Crypt, I think I'd be less opposed to it. It just really ended up bothering me that someone's takeaway from The Twilight Zone was Black Mirror.
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Nov 26, 2017 05:30
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lemon-lyme disease posted:… The tone is so completely, completely different that I'm not sure how anyone thinks to compare 'em. Black Mirror's very much a sci-fi Tales From the Crypt. I was thinking about this after my initial post. Despite its camp and cheap effects, I really, really love Twilight Zone because it does sci-fi with a heavy emphasis on the worth of humanity and emotion. It often had a gentle touch but when it ended in loss, it wasn't just a mean twist: It was a tragedy. It was made with a romance that considers worth of a single soul beyond measure. And unfortunately, that's a dated idea. Black Mirror is moreso a Tales From the Crypt in that it kinda revels in cruelty. It loves punishing its characters, it loves making things worse, it loves telling you that mankind at its core is obscene, hateful, ugly and hopeless. And that'd be fine if that was what I was set up to expect. It can be fun to see awful people eat poo poo! But when I think "Twilight Zone," I think of a something that believes and values the good in people and Black Mirror abso-loving-lutely doesn't do that. And yeah, Twilight Zone had that episode about scientists overseeing a man's breakdown in the face of absolute solitude; Black Mirror's take was "reality show punishment game!"
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Nov 26, 2017 10:41
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There's a weird elitist shopping attitude about Wal-Marts. I get supporting your local businesses and getting produce and meat elsewhere, but I don't get buying a bottle of Windex at Haggen's for six bucks and bragging that you haven't set foot in a Wal-Mart in [x] years. Maybe I'm just not rich enough to understand voluntarily spending three times as much on Windex.
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Nov 27, 2017 17:25
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doverhog posted:It's because you don't hate poors. I don't know why I was hoping for a non-horrible reason. 
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Nov 27, 2017 19:21
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steinrokkan posted:I don't know, when I hear Lidl I think "lol, cardboard boxes", when I hear Walmart I think "imperialism". I don't blame the people who shop there because of necessity, they are victims, and I don't blame the people who refuse to shop there, they are taking a stance against a terrible entity. People interested in altruism kinda defeat the point when they brag about it.
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Nov 27, 2017 20:08
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steinrokkan posted:First, it's not altruism, it's politics, staying quiet defeats the point, second, I don't brag about it, I'm responding to a post. Yyyyeah, I got that. I was referring to your point about Wal-Mart treating their employees lovely. To which I contend that if that's really why a person doesn't shop there, then bragging about not shopping there is an awful way to go about it. It just makes it look like the person is putting down people who can't help but to shop there. My use of second person was a hypothetical collective, not steinrokkan specifically.
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Nov 27, 2017 22:24
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Little Shop of Horrors, you rubes! Another PHUO, I was just thinking about how many lovely situations people get pressed into out of politeness. It'd be nice if social norms allowed you to say "no" without needing an actual reason and if the same social norms taught people to accept "no" without a reason. Normal people have a fear of appearing rude and assholes prey on it. This stemmed from girl talk about ways to lie about why we don't want to date people. A reasonless "no" translates into "try harder" or "ask again later." There are less direct, more ingrained examples, but that's just the one that cropped up. So yeah, I don't suspect "we should be able to be ruder without feeling bad" is a popular idea.
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Nov 28, 2017 17:31
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If you're not worried about the cost of your trial or its outcome, you're rich.
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Nov 29, 2017 16:31
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I didn't need a car for the three years I lived in Portland. Public transit was pretty reliable and expansive, and you could pick up a Car2Go if you really needed your own ride. But holy poo poo, LA. Everything's spread way far out, routes are extremely centralized and public transit is only qualified by sheer definition of the word. And I can't drive here because everyone's a hideously aggressive driver to the point of peeling out in front of you when the crosswalk light comes up. I have been spoiled, it seems.
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Dec 1, 2017 18:40
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veni veni veni posted:They can never stop when it's remotely plausible, they went straight from "hillary had some guy killed" to "hillary runs a child sex slavery ring in the secret basement of a Pizza shop" in a single breath. This is how I see fandoms, and why I sometimes consider them toxic enough to shun their source. Even if it has merit, I don't want to be considered one of those people. And before I get barked at for caring what people think, A) Note my use of the qualifier "sometimes" and B) If you are a member of society, it totally matters what people think.
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Dec 3, 2017 20:41
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There's an attitude about the convenience of 4G and wifi access that bugs me. It just kinda reminds me that when people live in a place where they have constant access to [thing], they assume everyone everywhere has access to [thing]. And then that translates to a greater problem wherein people assume everywhere in the world works like it does at home and that their solutions to problems should be applicable everywhere else, what are they, stupid?! Note this has little to do with the discussion on music libraries and moreso to do with an old biology teacher. 
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Dec 17, 2017 11:27
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Egh, last time I was visiting Montana I was posting here on an 88k connection. And uploading goddamn work files on it, too!  But really, I'm not pointing fingers at anyone here. The topic just reminded me of a pet peeve I'm developing in that "Just because it works here don't mean it works there." should not be an unpopular opinion. And it is, and it's frustrating. Particularly so when people want to tell you how it should work where you come from and they've never been! It's 3 am and I'm grumpy!
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Dec 17, 2017 12:03
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I like meat. And tofu. And rice. I ate food grown in human waste for years, I'm not picky.
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Jan 22, 2018 04:51
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Mutts are the best dogs and I cannot understand for the life of me why people spend hundreds of dollars on pre-broke dogs.
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Jan 24, 2018 06:48
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I like casual gaming. It's fun to admire the environment, geek out over game physics, enjoy the music and learn about the world the first time through. I'll kick up the difficulty on subsequent passes, but my first round's always, "That's a neat idea!/What track is that?/I walked through a river and I'm only wet up to my chest!/GOD RAYS, HOT drat!" A lot of people put a lot of work into making this thing and I want to be able to take a nice stroll through to admire their efforts. My other game PHUO that has come up before and I think most folks here agree on: Sex scenes in games are awkward as gently caress and unsexy as hell. It's not fun to watch dead-faced polygons pantomime sex. Quit it.
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Feb 3, 2018 06:35
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Ask native Koreans what they think of the Chinese. Then what the Chinese think of the Japanese. Then ask them all what they think of the SE Asians. Doesn't matter which country, pick one. Vietnam, Malaysia, India, have at. Asia is crazy, crazy racist.
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Feb 5, 2018 07:55
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Maybe let's leave that whole child porn thing illegal, tho.
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Feb 5, 2018 20:28
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My only hesitancy against a complete gun ban is their necessity in rural setting. Ranchers and farmers 100 miles from towns don't have the luxury of calling for help. If they have a rabid or mortally wounded animal, a vet isn't always on hand. If there's an issue with coyotes, cougars or hell, even deer, the nearest animal control center may be hundreds of miles away. In addition to that is hunting, which I think I brought up earlier in this thread: Just about every hunter I know was from a poor family and relied on the meat to supplement their diet. With the added benefit of culling a deer population that terrorizes the environment when burgeoning. There are a lot of rural people who own a gun that is 100% not meant to be used on a human being. Now, in an urban setting? Yeah, I agree there's no real need for guns there. Actually, how'd Australia handle the rural bit? They have a similar issue of sprawling wilderness pecked with civilization. Brits can't seem to quite comprehend the idea that the US is a around 40 times their size and that you can potentially cross the full length of the UK here without running into a town. 
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Feb 26, 2018 15:51
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yeah I eat rear end posted:He was only referring to semi-automatic weapons, not guns entirely I think. You can still hunt etc with a bolt-action rifle or whatever. Yup, but the rural thing is the only reason I'm not in for a total gun ban. Otherwise, I'm whole hog.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:12
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Fair enough. I guess you could make some arguments (and I see it a lot from the people who want a total ban) that you can hunt with non-firearms in most situations, but like if you're trying to stop a grizzly/polar bear trying to eat you you kind of need a gun 99% of the time unless you get extremely lucky with your arrow. Also I am not a hunting expert but I would think it's far more likely to cause unnecessary suffering in the animal if you don't get the perfect shot the first time. I'm no expert either, but from what I understand you're right! I worked at a cell store with a hunter and he would tell me about it during lulls. I remember him saying the objective is to kill the animal instantly because a wounded animal releases adrenaline and adrenaline spoils the meat. And on animal attacks, there was a story about a woman driving a pen as deep as it would go in a goddamn cougar's eye and it wasn't enough to get it to release her husband's head.  She had to repeatedly beat it with a log that was nearly too big for her to lift until it finally let go. They both lived, but animal attacks are no loving joke.
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Hundreds, if not thousands of people contribute to a film. The odds are sky high that one of them is a rapist, wife-beater, child abuser, racist, etc. They may not be important enough to the process that their "vision" is what's on-screen, but by consuming this media you are supplying the paycheck and ensuring future work for Dan the Rapist and Best Boy. You may not know him by name, but there is a near 100% chance that in a group of 500 people, one of them has done something morally heinous. You know drat good and well that if you support any large group, you are supporting at least one monster. So don't hold a dude morally accountable for murder when he watches Power Rangers.
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Mar 14, 2018 15:26
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Aramek posted:None of us are saying don't care about what you choose to consume. I'm just saying don't feel bad about it. I agree!
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Mar 14, 2018 15:51
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Since folks are having trouble distilling my opinion, I'll spell it out: "It is hypocritical to judge the morality of someone for enjoying something produced by a bad person. You are guilty of the same thing." I am not including goddamn legal protocol in my opinion as woah, my opinion has nothing to do with judicial prosecution. Where'd you even get that?!
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Mar 14, 2018 18:59
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Look, if you wanna get rid of all white people in the name of racism you're gonna have to pony up and ditch all of Asia, too. Asia is racist as gently caress against everyone.
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Mar 22, 2018 05:29
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Now I know this is a PHUO: I love cemeteries and think they should be preserved like historical landmarks. They're beautiful, serene and offer snapshots of a region's growth, struggles, development and downfall. One thing I really miss about the east coast is discovering all the really old cemeteries hidden about and tracing back the earliest dates. Finding old family plots is terribly interesting, too. Cemeteries are good and fascinating.
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Mar 22, 2018 09:44
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Tiggum posted:The cemeteries I've seen are full of rusty fences, crumbling monuments, weeds, and dead flowers. If preserving them means restoring and maintaining them then they might be beautiful, but at the moment they mostly just look overgrown and abandoned. The only bit that looked like anyone gave a poo poo about it was the lawn section, which is just a bunch of plaques on the ground, and even there the older ones look pretty bad. That's a pity! I've lived in a lot of places and grew up with some lovely cemeteries. When I lived in Kentucky, we'd often visit the Lexington and Frankfort cemeteries. I even have a coffee table book about the latter.   Our small town in Ohio had this one:  A town I lived in northern Missouri had four cemeteries, but Riverview was the prettiest. We'd go up on its cliffside and watch 4th of July fireworks:  Another town in southern Missouri was super Catholic and had this weird church called Saint Mary's of the Barrens. It had neat poo poo like this:  And then I also lived in Greenville, SC, but never got around to visiting the cemeteries there. I've been to a few after transitioning to the west coast and they're lovely, but don't date as far back. Even so, they're raw-as-you-can-get people museums and are awesome.
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I might've said it before, but it came up today: The British shouldn't criticize Americans for Imperial measurements because A) It's their fault we did it in the first place B) They still measure weight in stone Everybody else is allowed to criticize us, though!
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Sep 18, 2018 05:09
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Eh, people work crazy hard to run fast. If someone wants to throw money at them to ensure they can focus on working really hard to run fast, let them. People pay me to draw so yes, I am bias.
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Mikl posted:"Hey, I love your dress!" No poo poo, when a girl at work told me her Pusheen dress had pockets, I went home and bought it. And then I bought another of their dresses because I knew it'd have pockets.
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